APPart – Mobile Art – Pantone Color of the Day – Winner Announced – 21 May 2015
Huge congratulations to our APPart Color of the Day with Pantone Daily Challenge winner. The Color of the Day was Smoke Green (15-6315) with the adjectives and nouns, ‘Intelligent, Emotional and Intense’. We feel that @IliseHarris has captured the essence of these with this wonderful image, please check out her Instagram account, it’s fabulous. Today’s ‘Color of the Day ‘Mandarin Orange’ (16-1459) and the accompanying descriptives are ‘Musical, Verbal, Tenacious’. So, we would like to see your creations using this colour in combination with those words, if possible. It’s a challenge after all! To take part in this challenge, please create an image and post it to Instagram and include the…
APPart – Mobile Art – Pantone Color of the Day – ‘Mandarin Orange’ – TheAppWhisperer
Many of you have already seen our new segment to our APPart column here at TheAppWhisperer, edited by Bobbi McMurry. We would like to inspire all mobile artists to create one image a day using the selected colour of Pantone’s ‘Color of the Day’ – see here (we will announce the colour each day). As well a ‘Color of the Day’, Pantone also link that colour with adjectives and/or nouns. For your information Pantone’s ‘Color of the Day’ was originally created by renowned astrologer Michele Bernhardt – you can read more about her here. Today’s ‘Color of the Day ‘Mandarin Orange’ (16-1459) and the accompanying descriptives are ‘Musical, Verbal,…
Mobile Photography App Tutorial – NIR: A Color Blowout – TheAppWhisperer
Photography, as with all visual media, is an examination of light. All discussions about photography eventually come down to light. A photographer will “go out to capture the light”, set up and wait for the “golden hour”, discard portraits because “the light wasn’t there”. Some photographers have found a way to capture light you cannot see, the infrared wavelengths that exist just outside the visible spectrum. It requires special equipment – in the days of film, special films were required to detect IR light; in this digital age, a special sensor is needed, meaning a photographer will usually have a camera dedicated to only shooting IR. The results are strange…
Mayor of London Opens Photo London – Most Important New Art Fair in London for a Decade
Over 70 galleries from all parts of the world will participate in the first Photo London opening to the public at Somerset House on Thursday 21 May 2015. The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, will officially open Photo London at an evening reception attended by some of the world’s leading international photographers and galleries on Wednesday 20 May. “At a time when so many of us are using our smartphones to capture images of the people and sights around us, we shouldn’t forget photography’s significance as an important and longstanding art form. Photo London is an exciting addition to the capital’s art and design festivals that draw visitors from across…
First Major Christina Broom Exhibition – The Unsung Female Pioneer of UK Press Photography
So wonderful to be contacted by the Museum of London this afternoon regarding this totally fascinating photography exhibition celebrating the extraordinary life and work of Christina Broom. Widely considered to be the UK’s first female press photographer, Broom began her photographic career in 1903 at the age of 40. Soldiers and Suffragettes: The Photography of Christina Broom will include a cross section of her work, including Suffragette processions, First World War soldiers, official photographs of the Household Division and key London events, from the Lord Mayor’s Parade and royal coronations and funerals to historical pageants. These photographs will be joined by original glass plate negatives, and objects which build a…
Exclusive and Intimate Interview with Thomas Hurst – Photojournalist and Creator of COVR Photo Lens
Thomas Hurst is an admirable man and one that I am very pleased to know and call a friend. Originally, he was introduced to me by one of our Columnists and also good friend, Kevin Kuster – former Senior Photo Editor for Playboy Magazine. Hurst created the COVR lens case and launched a hugely successful campaign via Kickstarter last year for the iPhone 5 raising over $85,000, today he has launched a new campaign for the iPhone 6, you can read more about that here. I have been intrigued by Hurst for sometime, and wanted to learn more. Within this conversation, mostly in his own words, Hurst takes us through…
Kickstarter – COVR Photo Lens Case for iPhone 6 – Now Live
We are very excited to report that the brand new Kickstarter campaign for the iPhone 6 COVR lens case has just launched. Thomas Hurst is the creative genius behind this fantastic product. An award-winning photojournalist for almost 20 years, Thomas captured photographs in some of the most dangerous places in the world. Thomas’ work has appeared in such publications as Time magazine, The New York Times, and The Boston Globe. Among his many nominations and awards, Thomas has earned three World Press Photo awards, “Photograph of the Year” from Editor and Publisher magazine and was a finalist for the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Photography while at the Seattle…
iOS Photography Effects App – Circular+ – Free Today
Circular+ by BrainFeverMedia LLC allows you to post process your images with circular effects. It includes additional effects, including lens flares, sky objects and centres. It also includes filters and lens textures. It’s a popular app and usually retails for $1.99/£1.49, today it’s free – click here to download.
iOS Photography App – Enlight – On Sale Today
Enlight is one of the most popular mobile photography apps in the world, it’s about to get even more popular. Usually retailing for $5.99/£4.99 it is on sale today for only $0.99/£0.69. Click here to download.
Mobile Photography/Art – Pic of the Day (104) – via Instagram – TheAppWhisperer
Here’s day one hundred and four of our new Pic of the Day section via Instagram. Each day we will be selecting one image a day for our Pic of the Day section on Instagram with this hashtag – #theappwhisperer. Furthermore, each month we will also offer an overall prize to the image that receives the most love. Today, we congratulate @claybenskin1 – Clay Benskin with this image. Please also check out his Instagram feed, there are many gorgeous images.
